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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. OrientDB vs. SQL.JS vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

orientdb.org

sql.js.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

CNRS

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2013

2010

2012

1987

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Java, Javascript

yes

Triggers

yes

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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